I think a lot people crying about 8GB, are (or were) heavy windows users. They expect the os to take 4 of that, chrome to take 3 and only have 1GB left.
In reality any one who wants to game, use the ram for crazy data calculations, or do creative work professionally won’t be looking at the neo for reasons beyond the ram size.
(But yes, the non upgradable part sucks).
The performance of an m1 chips is still impressive for a “budget” laptop, and the built in finger warmer is nice when you leave the metal laptop out in the cold.
It’ll be good for someone, non-technical, who just needs a computer for the simple stuff in life. For a student it’ll be great, and when a class that wants them to edit a video or they need to “Photoshop” something - it will work for that. (Maybe not greatly, but it will work), you can’t say the same for a Chromebook.
The low ram is certainly a bummer and will hold it back, but with a properly optimized OS, it will probably fine for a few years.
The need for a dongle is just part the apple expirence, right? If you don’t want a dongle, go get a usbc to hdmi cable. Quite honestly, I’d love to see HDMI die out and be replaced with USBC, its a smaller connector and a good USBC cable can be used for other things too. Also if you’re hooking up a second display, chances are its a stationary setup and only having to plug in the 1 dongle for your “desk” is very helpful.
“Sexually starved rats crash car in desperation to make the pain stop”
“Congratulations, you’re everything we’ve come to expect from years of government training.”
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Just make sure everyone forgets you have admin access…use the power sparingly and avoid IT ever looking at your computer again.
Ah, I wasn’t up to date with the flint 3 issues. From what I gather, they are using some Qualcomm chip that makes life harder.
If you are looking to reflash, it seems flint 2 is defiantly the way to go.
From your original post, it seemed you were looking for more frequent updates, which is why I suggested the newer 3e.
As for technical differences, 3e has WiFi 7. Beside that, quickly skimming the specs pages, I don’t see any other big differences. Is that worthwhile? Probably not.
I wonder if the upcoming flint 4 will have the same Qualcomm chip, or if they do something different. I also worry they are releasing more products than they can sustain long term.
I have a few of their routers, they work well. They’re not quark free, but nothing is. I like what they stand for, using openwrt as a base and making it easy for stuff like VPN and adblock to be setup.
As for firmware updates, the flint 2 has been out a while (2023), so updates seem to have slowed down. https://dl.gl-inet.com/router/mt6000/stable
If you can afford it, I’d recommend the flint 3e for $170. That was released last year. https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-be6500/
If you do get the flint 2, I personally would not expect any groundbreaking updates, although the latest beta notes does at least add a feature.
That is followed a big asterisk, if you choose to flash your own openwrt, firmware updates will be your own problem to figure out.
(BTW, you can access the openwrt panel through GL’s default front end, it’s up to you what you do with that note.)
But why use an ai generated picture of her? It doesn’t even get the bamboo thing right.
Also here’s a picture of real bamboo, a handy reference the article could have included.
That second one is on HR - should have changed their name in the system.